Konoha: Starting the Game as Yoriichi

Sizzle.

The lightning gradually dissipated, revealing a sky that had been washed clean. At this moment, the sky, which was usually filled with yellow sand, was a rare sight to behold: crystal clear. The azure sky was like a polished mirror. It was as if a piece of pure land had been artificially swept clean.

"This brat... is strange." Sasori's gaze was fixed on Kusuo's figure, the guess in his heart growing more certain.

"Cough, cough." Deidara, his body charred black, was unrecognizable. He spat out the dust that had accidentally gotten into his mouth and wiped his face wretchedly. The black soot was wiped clean, revealing a striped face, which was quite comical. Only his pair of eyes were shining brightly, not at all affected by his recent failure.

"Is this the guy who unleashed that slash last time?" Like Sasori, Deidara wasn't an idiot. He had also guessed Kusuo's identity. Although Tobi and Itachi had been tight-lipped about the man after that day, the fact that he was a Konoha ninja was set in stone.

From Konoha. A boy who uses a sword. And such an exaggerated sword aura slash. Heh. They refused to believe that Konoha could produce a second sword-wielding monster like this.

"It was you who killed that useless Kisame, wasn't it?" Thinking of this, Sasori of the Red Sand's eyes gradually turned cold, and he asked menacingly.

To this, Kusuo just smiled faintly. "I didn't expect you to be so impolite when referring to your own comrades."

"That's right, I was the one who killed him. But I don't think that guy Kisame was weak. At the very least, he could withstand quite a few of my slashes."

"And you two—" Kusuo smiled, pointing his sword at Deidara and Sasori. "How many slashes can you block?"

Kusuo's arrogant words immediately made Sasori's pupils contract, a nameless fire rising in his heart. "You're too arrogant!"

POW! POW! POW!

Three puffs of white smoke rose, and three puppets suddenly appeared in front of Sasori.

Crow, Black Ant, and Salamander. They were for attack, capture, and defense, respectively. At this moment, Sasori of the Red Sand had been completely enraged by Kusuo's words.

Swoosh!

The chakra threads in his hand flashed. The two puppets, Crow and Black Ant, moved, instantly rushing in front of Kusuo.

SWISH!

The short blades built into the puppets slashed out, their movements sharp, bringing a white light. They were powerful and ice-cold. A faint purple glow emanated from them; they were clearly coated with a potent poison.

Kusuo knew that when fighting this kind of puppet, he absolutely could not be cut by them. Otherwise, the poison would immediately invade his heart. He would be dead in a very short time.

After Crow's slash, Black Ant's capture device immediately activated. A pincer-like claw, a full half-meter in size, shot towards Kusuo's head.

Fast. So fast that the puppets even left afterimages.

Precise. So precise that not a single opportunity was missed. The timing of the attack and capture was flawless.

As expected of a master puppeteer. A Kage-level puppet master. In the entire ninja world, the only one whose puppet control could be compared to Sasori's was Granny Chiyo of the Sand Village. And the latter's chakra and techniques were not even on par with the man before him.

But Kusuo, faced with this combination attack that arrived in the blink of an eye, showed no panic at all. Indeed, Sasori's insight was very sharp. This one slash and one grab had left him with no room to swing his sword.

But... just because he couldn't slash, didn't mean he couldn't chop.

His heavy breathing abruptly changed. The aura around Kusuo's body changed as well. This heavy pressure made the sand at his feet ripple outwards in a circle.

"Rock Breathing, First Form! Serpentine Rock—Twin Poles!"

The blade and the scabbard swung out at the same time. Like a meteor hammer, they fiercely smashed towards the bodies of the two puppets.

POW!

A heavy, powerful force descended upon them. Sasori suddenly felt the force of ten thousand catties transmitted through the chakra threads connected to his hands, which began to tremble slightly. He was about to lose control of the puppets' movements.

However, even if he could control them, it would be of no use.

BOOM!

A huge explosion roared. "Crow" and "Black Ant" were directly smashed to pieces by Kusuo, who had leaped up and chopped down heavily with his sword and scabbard. He had literally hammered out a crater a dozen meters in size.

Steel, screws, chakra threads, and other puppet parts flew into the air, scattering on the ground.

"What kind of technique is this?" Sasori couldn't understand it at all. The enemy who had just unleashed two astonishing sword auras had actually used such a violent attack. That aura, that force... was not at all like the work of a graceful and sharp swordsman. It was more like... the technique of a giant two or three meters tall.

Sasori looked with a pained heart at the completely shattered puppet fragments on the ground. That was his life's work.

POOF!

Another puff of white smoke flashed. Another powerful puppet appeared. Its summoning made the very air condense.

Kusuo, as calm as the wind, reached out and pulled his blade and scabbard, which were deeply embedded in the ground. He looked at the puppet Sasori had summoned again. It was none other than the Third Kazekage, who had mastered the Magnet Style transformation, made into a puppet.

CRASHHH—

Kage-level chakra howled through the heavens and the earth, kicking up gusts of wind. The sand swirled at Sasori's feet. Beside him, Deidara, who had already pulled himself together, pouted and muttered, "You even brought this guy out. Alright, I can't compete with you for this one." The moment he saw the Third Kazekage puppet, Deidara also gave up on the idea of fighting with Sasori for the kill.

Ignoring Deidara, who was just an idiot in his eyes, Sasori, in his Hiruko body, began to frantically pour chakra into the Third Kazekage. In an instant, the Third Kazekage puppet, which had been hanging its head, began to stir the airflow around it.

VMM!

A powerful aura. Yellow sand spun around him. The earth began to tremble slightly, as if something was about to drill out from underground. The sky was the same. The heavens, which had just been cleared by Kusuo's "Rumble and Roar," were once again filled with surging yellow sand, painted a dusky yellow color.

The Third Kazekage... his strength was not just in controlling yellow sand, but also in being able to extract iron from the sand.

"Magnet Style! Iron Sand World Method!"

VMM!

From the earth and the sky, fine, black-insect-like fragments suddenly drilled out. They were all made of hard iron sand. After humming in the air for a moment, they immediately swarmed towards Kusuo's body. Like a plague of flying ants, they blotted out the sky. It was not hard to imagine that if these tiny iron magnets shot into a person's body, they would definitely pierce out tens of thousands of tiny bloody holes.

A ninjutsu of this scale... was truly not simple.

Kusuo stared at the sweeping tide of iron sand and, with a backhand, unleashed a magnificent sword aura.

SWISH!

A slash. The sword aura howled out, carrying with it a flash of lightning. When the lightning met the conductive iron sand, it interrupted the Third Kazekage puppet's control over it. After a brief struggle, they all fell to the ground with a patter.

Seeing this, Sasori's expression changed slightly, but he still had the calm demeanor of someone holding a winning hand. "A nice lightning-attribute sword aura. But when my chakra is condensed to the extreme, the iron sand is no longer fine particles, but indestructible steel!"

Sasori roared, "Magnet Style! Iron Sand Drizzle!"

VMM! VMM!

The earth trembled. The iron sand that had just been cut down by Kusuo's sword suddenly rose into the air and gathered together. Then, as if a gap had been found in the sky and the earth, more sand frantically poured in, and black, ant-sized iron magnets shot out from the yellow sand, finally gathering together.

A block of iron sand a full dozen meters in size hung in the air, a black mass that brought a strong sense of pressure.

SWISH!

As fast as a gale. As fierce as a tiger. After the iron sand block was gathered, it suddenly shot down countless pellet-like iron sand projectiles. The speed of this Iron Sand Drizzle was astonishing, its power like a large-scale shotgun blast, making it impossible to block. As they flew through the air, they even changed into needle-point-like rain spikes, glowing with a purplish-black light. They were also highly poisonous.

Unfortunately, faced with this super-wide-range ninjutsu attack that would make any jonin or even Kage-level expert's scalp tingle, Kusuo didn't even move a single step. His expression was unchanging. He calmly raised the sword in his hand.

SWISH!

SWISH!

SWISH!

The sword light danced. A sword aura as fast as the extreme blocked in front of him, like an elliptical light screen, an indestructible barrier standing before him.

A thousand slashes per second. Every swing would bring up an afterimage of the blade, and in an instant, the sword light flashed. The sword flashed like lightning. Even the sand and dust around Kusuo were turned to powder by the high-speed rotation of the sword aura.

The seemingly invincible Iron Sand Drizzle was completely dissolved. It couldn't advance an inch.

"How is that possible?" Sasori's hands suddenly clenched, and the chakra threads controlling the Third Kazekage puppet also trembled. His eyes flashed with disbelief. Kusuo's one-handed sword aura barrier had broken his understanding of the world. Since when could someone in the ninja world block all attacks just by swinging a sword? And against a high-strength, high-density shotgun-like attack like the Iron Sand Drizzle, no less.

If there was, why had he never heard of such a method?

A deep shock appeared on Sasori's face.

And on the other side, Kusuo's last slash shattered all the oncoming attacks. He smiled and took a step forward. The blade of his sword shone with a golden light.

"You've been attacking for so long. Shouldn't it be my turn to make a move now?"

The moment his voice fell, VMM!

A strong humming sound was heard. But this time, it wasn't the sound of a vast amount of iron sand gathering. It was the sword in Kusuo's hand, humming with excitement. Golden lightning coiled around the blade, crackling loudly, as sharp as the cry of a thousand chirping birds.

"Thunder Breathing, First Form! Thunderclap and Flash!"

SWISH!

One slash. A flash of lightning. In the air, there was only a thick, dazzling golden thunderbolt.

BOOM!

The sand and dirt beneath Kusuo's feet were suddenly pressed down by the immense impact. Like a tearing thunderclap, the next time they blinked, he had already appeared on the other side of the battlefield.

The head of the puppet made from the Third Kazekage was flying high. With a "thud," it fell to the ground.

Sasori's face was filled with shock, his heart like a raging sea. He looked in horror at the headless Third Kazekage puppet. It was still flashing with sparks of electricity, its internal structure completely destroyed.

He... had not seen the movement of that one slash at all. There wasn't even an afterimage. Everything was so sudden. It was as if time had been stopped, and a second had been cut out from the middle. A second later, Kusuo had cut off his strongest puppet.

"This..." Deidara, who had been watching from the side, was already stunned. In his eyes, since Sasori had brought out the Third Kazekage puppet, the battlefield had nothing to do with him. But that one slash... it reminded him of his first meeting with Itachi. That pair of Sharingan had also brought him a deep shock.

No. Not even Itachi's eyes had brought him a shock as strong as the elegance of this one slash.

"Art!"

"This is art!"

"But my art is more perfect! More powerful!" Deidara felt his body trembling slightly, and he began to laugh wildly.

"Because art... is an explosion!"

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